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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

By : Cody M. Sommer
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Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Cody M. Sommer

Overview of this book

Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows you to play it in any way you want. Coupled with a multiplayer server powered by Spigot, you can customize the game even more! Using the Bukkit API, anyone interested in learning how to program can control their Minecraft world by developing server plugins. This book is a great introduction to software development through the wonderful world of Minecraft. We start by instructing you through how to set up your home PC for Minecraft server development. This includes an IDE complete with the required libraries as well as a Spigot server to test on. You will be guided through writing code for several different plugins. Each chapter teaches you new skills to create plugins of increasing complexity, and each plugin adds a new concept of the Bukkit API By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge you need about the API to successfully create any type of plugin. You can then practice and build your Java skills through developing more mods for their server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding permission nodes


A permission node is a string that usually contains multiple words separated by periods. These permission nodes are given to players to give them special privileges on the server. An example of this is minecraft.command.give, which is the permission node that is needed to execute the give command. As you can see, it can be broken down into three parts, namely, the creator (Minecraft), the category (command), and the specific privilege (the give command). You will find most permission nodes structured this way. For a plugin, its permission nodes begin with the name of the plugin. This helps prevent any collision of nodes. If two plugins were to use the same permission node, then an administrator cannot limit access to one node and not the other node. You will also find that many plugins' permission nodes are only two words long. This is done when the plugin does not have many permissions. Therefore, there is no need for categories. On the other hand, for large...